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TREES OP THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES 



and south ; also cultivated. Diospyros 

 Lotus (DATE-PLUM), with leaves very 

 dark green above, much paler and 

 downy beneath, and fruit much smaller 

 (% in.), and Diospyros Kaki (JAPAN 

 PERSIMMON), with large, leathery, shin- 

 ing leaves and very large fruit (2 in.), 

 are successfully cultivated from Wash- 

 ington, D. C., southward. The under 

 leaf represents D. Lotus, the upper one 

 a small specimen of D. Kaki. 



D. .L&tus and D. Kaki. 



ORDER XXVIII. STYRACACEJE. 



(STORAX FAMILY.) 



A small order of shrubs and trees, mostly of warm 

 countries. 



GENUS 56. STYRAX. 



Shrubs or small trees with commonly deciduous leaves, 

 and axillary, or racemed, white, showy flowers on droop- 

 ing stems. Pubescence scurfy or stellate ; fruit a glo- 

 bular dry drupe, its base covered with the persistent 

 calyx, forming a 1- to 3-seeded nut. 



l.Styrax Americana, Lam. (AMERICAN 

 STORAX.) Shrub or small tree (4 to 10 ft.), 

 with oblong, alternate leaves acute at both 

 ends, 1 to 3 inches long, smooth or very 

 nearly so; fruit % in. long, in racemes 

 of 3-4. Wild along streams, Virginia 

 and south ; occa- 

 sionally cultivat- 

 ed, and probably 

 hardy through- 

 out. 



8. Americana. 



2. Sty-rax Jap6nica, Sieb. (JAPAN STO- 

 RAX.) Leaves alternate, membranaceous, 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate, serrate or cre- 

 nate, J^ to 3 in. long, smooth or with short 



